Had Morgan not captured the Wolf, Denise wouldn't have been tending to him, and so would have been elsewhere and could have died there.

Yes, yes, you appreciate The Walking Dead on levels us fools can't even imagine.

It's the contrivance of the bad choices, though. As it's often the contrivance with the good/lucky choices.

"Reading the reactions to this ep it's clear y'all are dumbasses."

I think Carol's always had issues with killing - I think that has been one of the things TWD has managed to get right, rather than it being a sudden turn of events.

It's not proportional, though, surely? I mean, that's the criticism.

Too soon!

To be clear, I'm no crotch-chomping expert. I've never seen a real-life crotch chomp. So my crotch-chomping credentials are minimal if not non-existant.

FFS. 'Rusty Muscle Car' is called Daryl, and he's a mainstay of the show. Tch.

As I recall, the three that Daryl meets (Dwight and two women) were in the process of running away from Negan. After meeting Daryl (and losing a woman to one of the show's stupider walker moments) they decided to go back to Negan, thinking their newly acquired spoils of Daryl's motorbike, gun and crossbow would make…

It's weird how shit the Saviours actually are. Granted, Rick's group are a pretty tight and capable lot now, but Negan seems to be the sort of leader who pulls in the less capable by force of personality and the occasional show of brute violence.

I have to say, from the show it looks to be that Negan is a big, scary leader who gathers followers, but that he's pretty much the only one capable of getting stuff done. Perhaps precisely because he's a big scary leader.

I read the comics a few years back, up til they left the prison (which is as far as my local library had), but when glancing at a TWD wiki a while back I saw that Abraham gets it in the eye with an arrow in the same surprise manner Denise did.

I assume it will be, the way things have gone with her recently. I assume she'll be captured in part because she doesn't kill, and then it'll be her rather than who it is in the comics.

Dwight's in the Saviours. Daryl met him and two women when they were trying to leave the group, one of the women got walker'd, then the remainders stole Daryl's bike and bow and decided to go back with those things as a peace offering.

As I understand, in the comics that arrow was meant for someone else.

I guess in that case they survive and menace by numbers.

During the stand-off, 13 Saviours are visible. Four follow Dwight's call to 'run away! Run away!'. That's eight killed.

Ah, the holiday of St Monday:

I found Old Joy to be grindingly tedious. I found Wendy & Lucy to be so good that I sometimes felt I was forgetting to breathe.